Growing Old Quotes - Page 4

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Age, Mastery

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Elderly

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Getting Older

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Getting Older, Age

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• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Growing Up, Dust, Ashes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Age, Aging

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.208, Humanix Books

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• I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Sports, Hunting, Age

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Travel, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Birthday, Time, Years

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

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• You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Growing

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Birthday, Men

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friendship, Best Friend, Together

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Time, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

  George Burns

  Age, Taught, Aging

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• Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Growing Up, School, Reform

  Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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